Deadline: Oct. 31, 2018.
Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) now accepts submissions for its 2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize. The winner will receive $800, the runner-up $200 and the second runner-up $100. So, submit one 3,000-5,000, previously unpublished piece of short fiction that explores identity, like themes of gender identity and sexuality. According to Short Story Day Africa,
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To five-star neon-lit luxury. To budget motels with the option to pay by the hour. To intimate anonymous rooms wiped clean every twenty-four hours or clammy beds where remnants of yesterday’s guests still lurk.
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Lovers, aid workers, businessmen local and foreign, wedding guests, gap-year travellers, volunteer tourists, honeymooners, UN soldiers, politicians, adventure seekers, evangelists, holidaymakers, warmongers, peacekeepers.
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To hotels made of brick and cement and blood and sweat. Hotels made of corrugated iron and clay and hope and faith. Hotels celebrated, hotels forgotten. Hotels that have served as shelter for the night or refuge when the shots rang out.
Check-in to Hotel Africa
In 2018, Short Story Day Africa is seeking innovative short fiction set in the rooms, the passages, the bars and the lobbies of hotels across the continent, as well as metafiction exploring Africa as a hotel herself. If these walls could talk, what story would they tell?
Submit your story via Short Short Story Day Africa’s Submittable.
Submission Guidelines
To be eligible, you must be an African living at home or abroad, or anyone with permanent residence in any African country. Submit only stories primarily written in English, although you can incorporate other languages into your story. You can submit your short story under a pseudonym or nom de plume for the Short Story Day Africa Prize.
The Short Story Day Africa Prize judges will review submissions anonymously. Therefore, do not include your name or identifying details anywhere on your manuscript. However, include these details on the cover page. Place the title, must be the original title, of your story halfway down the cover page. And, put an accurate word count at the top right.
Also, type your document in Times New Roman or similar serif font, 12-point size, double-spaced. Left-justify your paragraphs and number the pages. Use 1 inch or 2-centimeter margins. Indent each new paragraph by about 1/2 inch or 1 centimeter, except for the first line of the story or the first line of a new scene. Don’t insert extra lines between your paragraphs. As a blank line indicates a new scene. Put the word “End” after the end of your text, centered, on its own line.
Short Short Story Day Africa will include selected entries in an anthology as selected by the judges. Selected authors will work with editors to get their stories publication-ready. By submitting a story, you attest it’s your original work and grant exclusive global print and digital rights to Short Story Day Africa, Worldreader and BooksLive. Thereafter, you have to seek permission to republish and attribute first publication to Short Story Day Africa when granted.